Rodriguez v. Palm Beach County Division of Animal Care & Control

Domingo Rodriguez seeks certiorari review of the circuit court’s affirmance of a county court’s forfeiture judgment. We grant the petition, holding that the circuit court, in its appellate capacity, failed to apply the correct law when it affirmed the county court’s denial of Rodriguez’s motion to suppress filed in the forfeiture proceedings. The same motion was also the subject of this court’s published decision reversing Rodriguez’s related criminal conviction.

The Palm Beach County Division of Animal Care and Control filed a petition in the county court seeking forfeiture of Rodriguez’s…